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Leaving Certificate English: Poetry
Courses for examination 2019 - 2022
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LEAVING CERTIFICATE ENGLISH – POETRY 2019 – 2022

Poets for 2019 – 2022
   Bishop
   Boland
   Dickinson
   Durcan
   Frost
   Heaney
   Hopkins
   Keats
   Kennelly
   Lawrence
   Ní Chuilleanáin
   Plath
   Rich
   Wordsworth
   Yeats

Poets prescribed for Higher Level, to be examined in the
following years

2019                  2020                2021      2022
 Bishop                 Boland            Bishop    Bishop
 Heaney                 Dickinson         Boland    Dickinson
 Hopkins                Durcan            Durcan    Keats
 Kennelly               Frost             Frost     Kennelly
 Lawrence               Lawrence          Heaney    Lawrence
 Ní Chuilleanáin        Ní Chuilleanáin   Hopkins   Rich
 Plath                  Rich              Keats     Wordsworth
 Yeats                  Wordsworth        Plath     Yeats

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Poetry 2019 - 2022
                     Poets [Higher Level]

BISHOP, Elizabeth
                    The Fish
                    The Bight
                    At the Fishhouses
                    The Prodigal
                    Questions of Travel
                    The Armadillo
                    Sestina
                    First Death in Nova Scotia
                    Filling Station
                    In the Waiting Room

BOLAND, Eavan
                    The War Horse
                    Child of Our Time
                    The Famine Road
                    The Shadow Doll
                    White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland
                    Outside History
                    The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave Me
                    This Moment
                    The Pomegranate
                    Love

DICKINSON, Emily
                    “Hope” is the thing with feathers
                    There’s a certain Slant of light
                    I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
                    A Bird came down the Walk
                    I Heard a fly buzz – when I died
                    The Soul has Bandaged moments
                    I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to
                    A narrow Fellow in the Grass
                    I taste a liquor never brewed
                    After great pain, a formal feeling comes

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DURCAN, Paul
                 Nessa
                 The Girl with the Keys to Pearse’s Cottage
                 The Difficulty that is Marriage
                 Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail
                 Parents
                 En Famille, 1979
                 Madman
                 “Windfall”, 8 Parnell Hill, Cork
                 Six Nuns Die in Convent Inferno
                 Sport
                 Father’s Day, 21 June 1992
                 The Arnolfini Marriage
                 Ireland 2002
                 Rosie Joyce
                 The MacBride Dynasty

FROST, Robert
                 The Tuft of Flowers
                 Mending Wall
                 After Apple-Picking
                 The Road Not Taken
                 Birches
                 ‘Out, Out-’
                 Spring Pools
                 Acquainted with the Night
                 Design
                 Provide, Provide

HEANEY, Seamus
                 The Forge
                 Bogland
                 The Tollund Man
                 Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication (1) Sunlight
                 A Constable Calls
                 The Skunk
                 The Harvest Bow
                 The Underground
                 Postscript
                 A Call
                 Tate’s Avenue
                 The Pitchfork
                 Lightenings viii. (The annals say…)

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HOPKINS, Gerard Manley
                         God’s Grandeur
                         Spring
                         As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
                         The Windhover
                         Pied Beauty
                         Felix Randal
                         Inversnaid
                         I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
                         No worst there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
                         Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend

KEATS, John
                         To one who has been long in city pent
                         Ode To A Nightingale
                         On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
                         Ode On A Grecian Urn
                         When I have fears that I may cease to be
                         La Belle Dame Sans Merci
                         To Autumn
                         Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art

KENNELLY, Brendan
                         Begin
                         Bread
                         ‘Dear Autumn Girl’
                         Poem from a Three Year Old
                         Oliver to His Brother
                         I See You Dancing, Father
                         A Cry for Art O’Leary
                         Things I Might Do
                         A Great Day
                         Fragments
                         The soul’s loneliness
                         Saint Brigid’s Prayer

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LAWRENCE, D.H.
                          Call into Death
                          Piano
                          The Mosquito
                          Snake
                          Humming-Bird
                          Intimates
                          Delight of Being Alone
                          Absolute Reverence
                          What have they done to you?
                          Baby-Movements II, “Trailing Clouds”
                          Bavarian Gentians

NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN, Eiléan          Lucina Schynning in Silence of the Nicht
                                 The Second Voyage
                                 Deaths and Engines
                                 Street
                                 Fireman’s Lift
                                 All for You
                                 Following
                                 Kilcash
                                 Translation
                                 The Bend in the Road
                                 On Lacking the Killer Instinct
                                 To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia, married
                                 in Dublin on 9 September 2009

PLATH, Sylvia             Black Rook in Rainy Weather
                          The Times Are Tidy
                          Morning Song
                          Finisterre
                          Mirror
                          Pheasant
                          Elm
                          Poppies in July
                          The Arrival of the Bee Box
                          Child

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RICH, Adrienne
                        Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
                        Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
                        Power
                        Storm Warnings
                        Living in Sin
                        The Roofwalker
                        Our Whole Life
                        Trying to Talk with a Man
                        Diving Into the Wreck
                        From a Survivor

WORDSWORTH, William
                        To My Sister
                        A slumber did my spirit seal
                        She dwelt among the untrodden ways
                        Composed upon Westminster Bridge
                        It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
                        The Solitary Reaper
                        from The Prelude:
                                 The Stolen Boat [ll357-400]
                                 Skating [ll425-463]
                        Lines Composed…above Tintern Abbey

YEATS, William Butler   The Lake Isle of Innisfree
                        September 1913
                        The Wild Swans at Coole
                        An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
                        Easter 1916
                        The Second Coming
                        Sailing to Byzantium
                        from Meditations in Time of Civil War:
                        VI, The Stare’s Nest by My Window
                        In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
                        Swift’s Epitaph
                        An Acre of Grass
                        from Under Ben Bulben: V and VI
                        Politics

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Poetry prescribed for Ordinary Level, to be examined in the following years:

                                   2019
AUDEN, W.H.                      Funeral Blues

BEER, Patricia                   The Voice

BISHOP, Elizabeth                The Fish
                                 The Prodigal
                                 Filling Station

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett      How Do I Love Thee

CANNON, Moya                     Shrines

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor         Kubla Khan

DYAR, Martin                     Death and the Post Office

GALLAGHER, Tess                  The Hug

HARDIE, Kerry                    Daniel's Duck

HEALY, Randolph                  Frogs

HEANEY, Seamus                   A Constable Calls
                                 The Underground
                                 A Call

HERRICK, Robert                  To Daffodils

HOPKINS, Gerard Manley           Spring
                                 Inversnaid

HUGHES, Ted                      Hawk Roosting

KENNELLY, Brendan                Begin
                                 Bread
                                 Saint Brigid’s Prayer

LAWRENCE, D.H.                   Humming-Bird
                                 Baby-Movements II, “Trailing Clouds”

LODEN, Rachel                    Memo from the Benefits Department

MISTRAL, Gabriela                Let Him Not Grow Up (trans. Ursula LeGuin)

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NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN, Eiléan   Street
                          To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia, married
                          in Dublin on 9 September 2009

O'MALLEY, Mary            Caoineadh Mháire

PLATH, Sylvia             Poppies in July
                          Child
                          The Arrival of the Bee Box

SMITHER, Elizabeth        On the euthanasia of a pet dog

YEATS, William Butler     The Wild Swans at Coole
                          An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

ZEPHANIAH, Benjamin       The Sun

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2020

AUDEN, W.H.                   Funeral Blues

BOLAND, Eavan                 Child of Our Time
                              This Moment
                              Love

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett   How Do I Love Thee

DUFFY, Carol Ann              Valentine

DICKINSON, Emily              I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
                              I Heard a fly buzz – when I died

DURCAN, Paul                  Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail
                              Parents
                              Sport

DYAR, Martin                  Death and the Post Office

FRANCE, Linda                 If Love Was Jazz

FROST, Robert                 The Tuft of Flowers
                              Mending Wall
                              ‘Out, Out –’

HERRICK, Robert               To Daffodils

HUDGINS, Andrew               The Cadillac in the Attic

LAWRENCE, D.H.                Humming-Bird
                              Baby-Movements II, “Trailing Clouds”

LEDWIDGE, Francis             Lament for Thomas MacDonagh

LOCHHEAD, Liz                 Revelation

MORRISSEY, Sinead             Genetics

NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN, Eiléan       Street
                              To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia,
                              married in Dublin on 9 September 2009

NOWLAN, Alden                 In Praise of the Great Bull Walrus

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O’MALLEY, Mary        Cealtrach

PIERCY, Marge         Will we work together?

RICH, ADRIENNE        Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
                      Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room

SHEEHAN, Eileen       My Father, Long Dead

SMITHER, Elizabeth    On the euthanasia of a pet dog

WORDSWORTH, William   She dwelt among the untrodden ways
                      It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
                      from The Prelude: Skating [ll 425-463]

ZEPHANIAH, Benjamin   The Sun

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2021

BISHOP, Elizabeth        The Fish
                         The Prodigal
                         Filling Station

BOLAND, Eavan            Child of Our Time
                         This Moment
                         Love

BROWNING, Robert         Meeting at Night

CLANCHY, Kate            Driving to the Hospital

DURCAN, Paul             Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail
                         Parents
                         Sport

FROST, Robert            The Tuft of Flowers
                         ‘Out, Out –’

GUNN, Thom               Considering the Snail

HEALY, Randolph          Frogs
                         Primula veris

HEANEY, Seamus           A Constable Calls
                         The Underground
                         A Call

HERBERT, George          Easter Wings

HOPKINS, Gerard Manley   Spring
                         Inversnaid

HUDGINS, Andrew          The Glass Hammer

KEATS, John              On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
                         La Belle Dame Sans Merci

LEDWIDGE, Francis        Lament for Thomas MacDonagh

MURPHY, Richard          Moonshine

O’CALLAGHAN, Julie       The Net
                         Problems

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O'MALLEY, Mary          Caoineadh Mháire

PLATH, Sylvia           Poppies in July
                        Child

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe   Ozymandias

SHUTTLE, Penelope       Jungian Cows

SOTO, Gary              Oranges

WHEATLEY, David         Chronicle

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2022
BISHOP, Elizabeth     The Fish
                      The Prodigal
                      Filling Station

BRYCE, Colette        Self-Portrait in the Dark (with Cigarette)

CANNON, Moya          Shrines

CLANCHY, Kate         Driving to the Hospital

DICKINSON, Emily      I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
                      I Heard a fly buzz – when I died

DUFFY, Carol Ann      Valentine

FRANCE, Linda         If Love Was Jazz

HEALY, Randolph       Frogs

HUDGINS, Andrew       The Cadillac in the Attic

HUGHES, Ted           Hawk Roosting

KEATS, John           On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
                      La Belle Dame Sans Merci

KENNELLY, Brendan     Begin
                      Bread
                      Saint Brigid’s Prayer

LAWRENCE, D.H.        Humming-Bird
                      Baby-Movements II, “Trailing Clouds”

LEVERTOV, Denise      An Arrival (North Wales, 1897)

MEEHAN, Paula         The Russian Doll

O’REILLY, Caitriona   Interlude 12

RICH, ADRIENNE        Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
                      Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room

SHEEHAN, Eileen       My Father, Long Dead

SHUTTLE, Penelope     Zoo Morning

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SOTO, Gary                 Oranges

STAFFORD, William          Travelling Through the Dark

WILLIAMS, William Carlos   This is just to say…

WORDSWORTH, William        She dwelt among the untrodden ways
                           It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
                           from The Prelude: Skating [ll 425-463]

YEATS, William Butler      The Lake Isle of Innisfree
                           The Wild Swans at Coole
                           An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

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